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The budget super change that helps the wealthy at the expense of the young

  • Written by: Brendan Coates, Fellow, Grattan Institute
The budget super change that helps the wealthy at the expense of the youngIf your're wealthy you'll be able to put more money into super without even working.Shutterstock

Another federal budget, and yet more tinkering to superannuation tax breaks. But the latest changes will only help older wealthier Australians. The losers are younger workers and taxpayers.

What’s the plan?

From July 1 2020, Australians aged 65 and...

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Is bottom-pinching still 'indecent' by today's community standards?

  • Written by: Hadeel Al-Alosi, Lecturer, School of Law, Western Sydney University
Is bottom-pinching still 'indecent' by today's community standards?It wasn’t okay to touch people inappropriately in the 1970s and 80s, and it still isn’t now.Elen Tkacheva/Shutterstock

In a recent court case in Western Australia, Magistrate Michelle Ridley ruled that “in an era of twerking” and easy access to pornography, a police officer pinching a woman’s backside is not indecent...

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The first known case of eggs plus live birth from one pregnancy in a tiny lizard

  • Written by: Melanie Laird, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Otago

For most animals, reproduction is straightforward: some species lay eggs, while others give birth to live babies.

But our recent research uncovered a fascinating mix between the two modes of reproduction. In an Australian skink, we observed the first example of both egg-laying and live-bearing within a single litter for any backboned animal.

This...

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  2. How Leonardo da Vinci made a living from killing machines
  3. Total transport spending is about par for the course, but the pattern is unusual
  4. Banning 'tiny vehicles' would deny us smarter ways to get around our cities
  5. women don't get a fair go in sports administration
  6. Budget 2019 has little new for schools and even less for early childhood: education experts respond
  7. Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on budget strategy and numbers
  8. Budget 2019 boosts aged care and mental health, and modernises Medicare: health experts respond
  9. Congestion-busting infrastructure plays catch-up on long-neglected needs
  10. Michelle Grattan, Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on the election-eve budget chock full of sweeteners
  11. Budget 2019 at a glance
  12. budget tax-upmanship as we head towards polling day
  13. Frydenberg’s budget looks toward zero net debt, but should this be our aim?
  14. Tax giveaways in Frydenberg’s 'back in the black' budget
  15. It’s the budget cash splash that reaches back in time
  16. Iron ore dollars repurposed to keep the economy afloat in Budget 2019
  17. The 39 endangered species in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and other Australian cities
  18. Zuckerberg's 'new rules' for the internet must move from words to actions
  19. The importance of sports in recovery from trauma: lessons from and for Christchurch
  20. Livestreaming terror is abhorrent – but is more rushed legislation the answer?
  21. The National is a time capsule of new Australian art in uncertain times
  22. Many professions have codes of ethics
  23. Married at First Sight - a 'social experiment' all but guaranteeing relationship failure
  24. a decent menu, but missing the main course
  25. in Denmark it is a term of affection
  26. Don't worry, a school library with fewer books and more technology is good for today's students
  27. Government's population plan is more about maximising 'win-wins' than cutting numbers
  28. TikTok is popular, but Chinese apps still have a lot to learn about global markets
  29. Labor's plan for transport emissions is long on ambition but short on details
  30. Erdogan tried to make local Turkish elections about national security, but it didn't work
  31. Mega study confirms pregnant women can reduce risk of stillbirth by sleeping on their side
  32. India destroys its own satellite with a test missile, still says space is for peace
  33. what should our maximum heart rate be during exercise?
  34. How to get ready as the US-China trade war spills over to other countries
  35. was he an environmentalist ahead of his time?
  36. Migrants want to live in the big cities, just like the rest of us
  37. Who do Chinese-Australian voters trust for their political news on WeChat?
  38. why do we have fingernails and toenails?
  39. How DNA ancestry testing can change our ideas of who we are
  40. Bleaching has struck the southernmost coral reef in the world
  41. It's time to lift the restrictions on medical abortion in Australia
  42. Expect a budget that breaks the intergenerational bargain, like the one before it, and before that
  43. the rise and fall of the bad-tempered tabloids
  44. If we want students to feel safe at school, we can't encourage teachers to spot potential extremists
  45. how a 15th century artist dissected the human machine
  46. Settling migrants in regional areas will need more than a visa to succeed
  47. Shorten's climate policy would hit more big polluters harder and set electric car target
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